Die technik des sandwich-making dramas
Like all great American novels, this novel will have numerous subplots, illustrated by the plot-lines diagram, including five thousand words devoted to a sandwich-making subplot in which a sandwich is systematically assembled and unassembled multiple times until …
Schlafen Ahab and Other Fiction Characters
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Continued from Writing on Deck – The Metafiction Myth – Pt1.
After taking her pills, she went to the coffee tap (nothing beats real coffee), but when she pushed the graphical button labeled POUR, the lovely, lovely java that …
Nyarlathotep, Mighty Administrator of Ancient Health and Dental Plans
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Gerald pulled the document from Schlafen Ahab’s drawer and read:
As a member of the Old Ones community, one of the most important benefits you’ve earned is incomprehensible health care …
Gerald, a cloned German terrorist, and a duck walked into a bar.
The Zombie that Lives within Us
The clone raised his hand. “Barmann, zwei bourbons, ‘neat’.”
The German and Gerald walked briskly side by side, circling the barroom and …
After the fiasco with the stampeding herd of chevrotains, Ishmael returned to his room at the Pequod.
Motel Run Like a Whaling Ship
The light flickered the way bad motel room lighting stereotypically does. Ishmael Barz pulled a slab …
A character from my novel in progress.
Sleepy Ahab’s Baader-Meinhof Clones
Sleepy Ahab runs the motel, where the main character of the novel has been staying. The motel is located along highway 19. Sleepy Ahab has crazy Albert Einstein hair
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The Setting of My Story Mapped
A sleepy, bucolic setting, as is the case in many towns in the heartland, Romulus is located on the Mississippi/Georgia Border. The population was 1885 in the 2010 census. The town was founded by …
The opening scene from my psychological post modern crime thriller cook book introduces the main character, X, whom I’ve yet to name officially.
Crime Thriller Novel Excerpt – Opening to Gerald Freund, Private Detective
In this novel excerpt, the main …
Novel Excerpt – Wordplay Under a Hot Sun
While I’ve been hard at work on my novel, I decided I needed a break. With the success of the children’s book, Go the Fuck to Sleep, I decided I would write …
